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    Fernando Pessoa
    “The moon is high up in the sky and it’s spring.
    I think of you and within myself I’m complete.

    A light breeze comes to me from across the hazy fields.
    I think of you and whisper your name. I’m not I: I’m happy.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
    tags: from-the-shepherd-in-love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177062 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127104 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92182 likes

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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71691 likes

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  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46490 likes

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  • #9
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
    29961 likes

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  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23582 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148391 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: age, bukowski, lonely
    281 likes

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  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: age
    252 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age, wisdom
    169 likes

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  • #15
    Richard Dawkins
    “It was harder to work out that there was a question than to think of the answer.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
    22514 likes

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  • #17
    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
    2488 likes

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  • #18
    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    ― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse
    tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour
    2933 likes

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  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “No pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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    Samuel Beckett
    “There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
    3433 likes

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  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto
    1751 likes



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